2023

Especially those at the pinnacle that've lost touch with their customers.

I've blogged about it before.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Source: Pluralistic

I've just learned that Amazon Kindle killed the book loaning feature... Something they initially used as a selling point when I got my first Kindle in 2017 (or whenever it was).

Started updating my Debian systems from Bullseye to Bookworm.

The first thing I noticed was that ethX renamed to enXY.

To get back to the old naming scheme, you can fix this by adding the following in /etc/network/interfaces:

rename enX0=eth0
rename enX1=eth1

And reboot.

For my Mastodon instance, I use Cloudflare R2; mainly for two reasons:

• Storage was growing quickly (~80Gb during its peak); I am hosting my instance on a RPi4 (w/ 8Gb RAM) and the SSD was filling up rapidly,
• I wanted something speedy to serve (big and cacheable) content (i.e. a CDN).

While I didn't care much about storage any more, I still wanted to make sure it was kept in check, also for two reasons:

I’m very fortunate to have a handful of new trees, some grass and public seating bookend the street I live in. One of my favourite times of the day to be out on my balcony is dusk, because when the sun starts setting and the hustle and bustle of the city subsides, a group of Indian myna birds, attracted by that greenery, playfully chirps and flies between the trees. The tweeting draws out neighbours, too, and creates a beautiful moment of connection through nature in an otherwise man-made environment.